[tz] Busingen revisited

Ian Abbott abbotti at mev.co.uk
Wed Jan 9 16:47:14 UTC 2013


On 2013-01-09 13:49, Sascha Wildner wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:28:30 +0100, Arthur David Olson
> <arthurdavidolson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     With the new year, a revised attempt to handle the German exclave of
>     Busingen (which followed Zurich rather than Berlin in 1980).
>     These changes are relative to the latest github.com/eggert/tz
>     <http://github.com/eggert/tz> versions; they are both below (with
>     tabs mangled) and attached.
>
>              --ado
>
>     *** old/europe    2013-01-07 08:05:19.093905100 -0500
>     --- europe    2013-01-07 08:13:01.260316900 -0500
>     ***************
>     *** 1239,1244 ****
>     --- 1239,1265 ----
>                    1:00    Germany    CE%sT    1980
>                    1:00    EU    CE%sT
>
>     + # From Tobias Conradi (2011-09-12):
>     + # The German enclave of B&uuml;singen
>
>
> It should be "exclave" there (it's an exclave of Germany and an enclave
> of Switzerland).
>
> I'm not sure, are the files supposed to be UTF-8? If so, that &uuml;
> should be 'ü'. Alternately, you could also write "Buesingen" (ü becoming
> ue).

The '&uuml;' is a HTML entity for 'ü'.  There are several HTML entities 
in the tz file comments, along with other random bits of HTML, but 
that's a discussion for another thread.  (ISTR there was such a thread a 
while ago but I can't find it.)

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